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OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
Buffulo Nickels, and if so, what might be a ballpark est. on something like that.
I'm thinking of putting in a little bar in the living room and the slot would be a
cool touch, one with a window showing Buffs inside, anyone have something
similar?

Steve
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    guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭
    I have a 1930's Mills Castlefront 5¢ slot that I packed with Buffalo Nicks. Looks cool.

    I have some pics of it somewhere, let me see if I can dig them up.

    Edited to add: it came out of a hotel in Chicago.
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    mingotmingot Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭
    My grandfather had an amusement business and put out slot machines back in the 50's and he had a lot of 30's/40's machines. My mother has one of the older nickel machines and at some point I plan to buy some dateless buffs in bulk and load it up with them. It should look pretty cool.
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    JBNJBN Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a Pace Comet with fortune wheels. Originally filled it with dateless buffaloes. This was a long time ago - I bought the nickels for 7 cents to 15 cents each over a period of several years. I'd clean out any coin shop I visited.

    In more recent years, I have steadily incorporated dated nickels. I hope to convert the entire machine's inventory to dated nickels at some point.
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    drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,053 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's my Mills Castle (Mystery) Front, double jackpot, stocked with all silver quarters.
    If you're old enough, you'll remember the sound of silver falling.
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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, I do - but one of the kids jammed the machine the other day and I have going to have to tinker with it to find what the problem is - I think a spring is caught in the mechanism in the coin slot. My machine is a ca. 1962 Harrah's 5 cent one.
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    guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Here's my Mills Castle (Mystery) Front, double jackpot, stocked with all silver quarters.
    If you're old enough, you'll remember the sound of silver falling.
    image >>




    Mine looks exactly like this but it's a 5¢ slot and is blue (where the green paint is on the one pictured).
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    drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,053 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kinda like this single jackpot Mills?
    image

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